Beauty is more than skin deep. The inner beauty of classic motorcycles is revealed in this series of x-rays by photographer Nick Veasy. How did it do it? Borrowing vintage motorcycles from a local bike club. Bringing them to his studio to be x-rayed via a powerful machine requiring for protection from intense radiation, to have his walls 30” thick and a lead door weighting 2700 lbs!
Each bike was shot in portions, from 35 to 50 x-rays for a full motorcycle, each shot being assembled to the others using Photoshop.

Nick Veasy is not a beginner at x-rays. He has done the same type of work with machine guns and airplanes (he shot 1000 pieces to get the x-ray of a full Boeing 777) He is currently building a mobile x-ray truck to travel to his x-ray subjects. Looking at these images, it’s the first time that x-rays bring a smile to my face.